explicit instantiation of methods bug.

[Andrew Fitzgibbon]

Hi,

I occasionally explicitly instantiate single methods of a template class,
e.g. Given
   
   template<class Type>
   struct A {
     ....
     bool f (A<Type>& u, A<Type>& w, A<Type>& v) const { }
   };

   template bool A<double>::f (A< double >&, A< double >&, A< double >&) const;

I want to instantiate f and not anything else in A.

egcs gives

/users33/awf/etest.cc:7: no matching template for `A<double>::f(A<double> &, A<double> &, A<double> &) const' found

But CD2 (the latest std I have access to), section 14.7.2.8 contains the phrase
   
   and the template may be a [member template or] 
   member function [which would not normally be accessible]
   
which would seem to imply that it ought ot be allowed, as in earlier gcc's.